Spurs face Villarreal in their first Champions League campaign in three years. The fixture takes place at 20:00 BST on September 16 from the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The Lilywhites look to build on a strong 3-0 victory away at London rivals West Ham United. Here is our Tottenham Hotspur predicted lineup vs Villarreal.<\/p>\n
Tottenham have lined up in a 4-3-3 formation this season. It seemed that this was due to a lack of a number ten; however, the arrival of Xavi Simons did not change this.<\/p>\n
In goal, Guglielmo Vicario has had a strong season. Pedro Porro and Djed Spence play as full-backs, with Micky van de Ven and Cristian Romero forming a great centre-back partnership.<\/p>\n
Read More: <\/strong>Revealed: Tottenham Hotspur\u2019s Four \u2018Senior Appointments\u2019 to Replace Daniel Levy<\/a><\/p>\n Spurs have played with a midfield three. Pape Matar Sarr has started every match in the league, whilst Joao Palhinha has in all but one. Lucas Bergvall came into the line-up for Rodrigo Bentancur against West Ham.<\/p>\n Brennan Johnson had been starting on the left-wing this season, but Xavi Simons took his place in the last fixture. Meanwhile, Mohammed Kudus plays on the right. Richarlison lost his place to Mathys Tel over the weekend, but this may have been to give the Brazilian a rest before this Champions League fixture.<\/p>\n Thomas Frank has had to deal with plenty of injuries<\/a> in his first months at Spurs. Attacking midfielders Dejan Kulusevski and James Maddison have been out since the start of the season.<\/p>\n Read More:\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>\u2018It\u2019s Really Difficult\u2019: Tottenham Hotspur Youngster Reveals the Honest Reason for Leaving This Summer<\/a><\/p>\n Meanwhile, Dominic Solanke picked up an injury earlier this season. In defence, Kota Takai and Radu Dragusin are unavailable.<\/p>\n GK: Guglielmo Vicario<\/p>\n LB: Djed Spence<\/p>\n CB: Micky van de Ven<\/p>\n CB: Cristian Romero<\/p>\n RB: Pedro Porro<\/p>\n CM: Joao Palhinha<\/p>\n CM: Rodrigo Bentancur<\/p>\n AM: Xavi Simons<\/p>\n LW: Brennan Johnson<\/p>\n ST: Richarlison<\/p>\n RW: Mohammed Kudus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Spurs face Villarreal in their first Champions League campaign in three years. The fixture takes place at 20:00 BST on September 16 from the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The Lilywhites look to build on a strong 3-0 victory away at London rivals West Ham United. Here is our Tottenham Hotspur predicted lineup vs Villarreal. Tottenham Hotspur […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4784,"featured_media":632989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,378],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-659633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tottenham","category-champions-league","tag-tottenham-hotspur"],"modified_by":"Henry Chung, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659633"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659636,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659633\/revisions\/659636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Tottenham Injuries to Consider<\/h3>\n
Tottenham Hotspur Predicted Lineup Vs Villarreal<\/h3>\n